is BLIND AND POOfi.
B A R O N E S S J E N N O VAN R A HDEN
D Y IN G IN A U STR IA .
S h e H u s H a d a C a re e r In W h ic h th e
R o m a n t ic a n d T r a ttie W e re S t r a n g e ly
H le n d e d -In fa tu a te d H u a b a u d K ille d
F o u r A d m ir e r * .
lng. She rode all evening, and her acta * U M B R E L L A WAS A T F A U L T .
wero even more brilliant thau usual.
But even while the applause was ring I t G a v e T h is Y o u n g W om an a Had
F e w M in u tes.
ing through the place she faiuted and ,
Umbrellas get people luto strange
slid helplessly to the ground. She was
carried to the hotel burning with fever. predicaments now and theu. In proof
Wheu she awoke the next morning she of which this story shows how acci
begged her attendants to open the shut dents In the best reguluted families
ters. But the shutters already were will produce a decided feeling of dis
composure.
wide open. She was blind. Phystciaus (
A well-regulated looking young wom
consulted aud consulted, to arrive only
an
of the haughty beauty type walked
at the same verdict—hopeless. The cir
dowu
the street, head well In the air,
cus folk did what they could uutll the
shoulders squared, chin drawn lu, obey
show had to depart from Nizza. They
ing the behests of her physical culture
left her behind them lu the hotel,
teacher to the letter, lu fact. Her cos
whence later she was taken to a hospi
tume was pretty aud appropriate to the
tal and where she is now dying. All of
warm day, aud an air of well-being
her horses were sold for her mainten pervaded her entire personality uutll
ance.
over, who has for years bwn a part of
the city government.*
"The Princess looked up aud stulled,
anil I spoke to her lu Hpaulsh and told
her how pleased 1 was to meet her. Mho
answered tliut I was the first womsu
she had met who spoke her own tougue.
We talked for over an hour on Hpaulsh
and American customs. She told me
of her love of horses, music and litera
ture. trad of the training of her Spanish
sisters. She usked me to step outside
with her, and I did so. We walked up
trad down the deck for about teu
minutes when I saw the mnster of cere
monies coming. He Instantly recog
nized me, and advancing quickly to
ward the Princess he spoke hurriedly
In Spanish mid put Ills finger to his
H im . 1 looked up to him and said;
“ 'I’ve got niy two-column Interview,
thank you, and I obeyed your orders
strictly. 1 was presented by tho
Mayor.’ ”
A new system of gun firing, consist
ing lu enlarging tlie chumbcr at tin*
breech aud filling It with water be
tween tlie charge and the propectlle, Is
Wealth and splendor have gone; the
claimed to give enormously high muz
titan who killed four others for her love
zle velocities, with less foullug and
lies molderlug under ground with Ills
corrosion.
victims; the world that bowed before
Flowering plnuts are uot certainly
her beauty has forgotten her, or, If it
kuowu
to reach a greater height than
remembers, remembers ouly to pity
seventeen thousand feet lu tlie Alps.
for a passing moment; the beautiful
At leust half a dozen species -Including
eye« that once were watched eagerly P R E F E R T O R t M A IN IN M E X IC O .
u saxifrage, a mallow, a valerian and
by hundreds for a glance are sightless.
several couiposltae- have been broiignt
It Is the end of the glory of the Baron N a t lv e a o f O u r S la te r R e p u b lic S eld o m
by Sir Martin Conway from heights
K m lg r u t e to th e S ta te s .
ess Jenny von Kahdeu. She lies In Nizza
of eighteen thousand to 18,300 feet lu
By
the
last
census
taken
iu
18U3
the
Austria—blind, miserably poor and
tlie Bollvan uiouutalus.
dying. The magnificent trained horses population of Mexico was 12,378,000.
Before u meeting of tlie Biological
D IE T A N D T U B E R C U L O S IS
By
the
last
census
of
Canada,
taken
lu
which she loved passionately, and with
Society
of
Washington
Mr.
W.
A.
Or
188«,
Its
population
was
5,123,000.
which she won applause from all of
ton described tlie result of experiments K lfecta o f O ne U p o n th e O t h e r —V a lu e
Europe, have been sold long ago for There are thus more thau twice ns
o f A m p le F e e d in g .
made to determine tlie cause of the
debt, and she does not know who owns many Inhabitants iu Mexico us in Cau-
An liiqtortuut teature of the "fresh
flow of maple sap lu the early spring, air” system of treutiug tuberculosis, us
them now. She has made with barely ada, aud the facilities of travel between
ills conclusion was that tin* flow lias most readers ure already aware, la
one step the voyage from magnificence Mexico aud the United States are
a
mechanical cause, being due to tlie ample feeding, ’the sanatorium at
equally
good,
but
by
the
last
census
to bitter misery.
^ In crea sin g heat which expands the Nordach is famous tor its requirement
It was as an equestrian that Jenny there were 1,000,000 Canadians lu the
gases in the wood cells, and thus ford- that the patieuts shall eat a certain
Weiss first became one of the cele United States aud ouly 77,000 Mexicans
lily expels the sap. Tills contradicts
—
a
disparity
so
great
as
to
require
brities of Kuro|>e. Many wooed her.
aumuut of food at euch meal aud take
tlie view that the (low of sup Is due
Of them all none wooed as did the big, some explauatiou.
(heir repasts lu the pieseuce of u medi
only to physiological action lu tlie cal supervisor.
It has generally been supposed that a
handsome, dashlug, prodigally rich
R O T IIK K K D HY 1IKR U M R R K I.L A
plant.
Russian, Baron von Rahden. He won majority of the Cauadiaus iu the Uni
Fresh Illustration of tlie benefits to
she had gotten exactly opposite a group
The fur of tlie blue fox bus become so be derived from an ahumhrat diet by
her. and became as fierce an adorer of ted States are residents of either the of men who were luxlly interested lu
valuable of late years thut "fox farms” persons who suiter from tuberculosis
his wife as he had been her adorer dur northern counties of New York or the her.
now exist on some of the Islands off the ure afforded by Dr. Jane 11. Walker,
ing courtship. He showered upon her manufacturing districts of New Eng
As was natural, her air of haughti
love and wealth and watched over her land, into which there has been of re ness and her "physically cultured" const of Maine us well us on the Aleu physlciuu to the New Hospital lu lx>u-
tian Islands aud the i ’rlbllof Islands in
cent years a very large Immigration of
with Jealous care.
bearlug were Intensified the moment Behring Sea. One of the problems now don, aud superintendent of the East
Freuch-Canadians,
but
It
is
a
fact
that
For this mau, with his savage love,
Anglian Sanatorium. A particularly
she became aware of the observers,
there came torment. His wealth was the Canadlnu-boru population of tlie aud therefore It was a great pity that confronting the fox ranchers Is how to striking case was thut of a housemaid
swept away in a night, and he faced United States Is pretty evenly distrib the light umbrella she carried should provide more nbuuduut food for the who was under Dr. Wulkcr’s care at
life as a beggar. Unfitted for work, he uted, and by the last Federal census have taken this Inopportune moment foxes In the winter time. On the Aleu one time. The maid exhibited nonie
struggled bitterly, until sheer necessity there were 181,000 Cuuadlaus lu Michi to shut up, catch her hat iu Its folds, tian Islands they have been fed with unusual symtouis. Her temperature
dried salmon when other food gives
gan, 20,000 In California. 40,000 lu the
turn it awry, disarrange her hair and out. They will even eat sea-urci»us, would run up to 106 or even 110 de
State of Illinois, 17,000 In Iowa, and, 1
grees without apparent cause, and theu
generally rob her of peace of mind.
searching for them on the beach at low drop down to tin* normal level. The girl
more curious still, perhaps, 3,000 Iu
,
When
the
young
woman
had
extri
tide.
Texas. Two-thirds of all the Mexicans |
»us exceedingly obstluate and difficult
cated herself, folded her tent—that Is,
In the United States are to be found
, her umbrella—and gone on her way-— The members of the International to mnungc, too. She was so deter
within the State of Texas and the other
| but not rejoicing, she seemed to have Commercial Congress recently held iu mined to preserve her figure that she
one-third iu the other forty-four States shrunk In size and the well-regulated Philadelphia were told by W. C. Bark would uot ut first comply with the de
and Territories of the country. By the look was quite gone. So much are we er, as tlie result of his observations mand tlmt she either relax or abandon
last census the whole number of Mexi i the creatures of circumstances.—Chica- among European manufactories» that lier slays. However, she Inst weight
cans resident in New Y'ork was return , go Chronicle.
time seems to be regarded as of com steadily for six weeks, and In other re
ed as 330, of Missouri 130, of Illinois
paratlvely little value abroad, while In spects appeared to be losing ground.
143, and of Colorado 007.
T h e G r e a t S e a l o f E n g la n d .
America the maxim tliut "time is mon- She then became alarmed and consent
The most frequent explanation given
The seal consists of a large mass of j ey” is practically applied. Mr. Harker ed to obey the doctor's orders. She left
for the scarcity of Mexican residents in sterling silver, measuring about six and { found that lu a large agricultural ma off lier slays, began to eat heartily, and
the United States is found in the differ a half inches in diameter by one and a 'cblnery manufactory in Europe the at the end of a single week she had
T H E B A K O N K S 8 A N D IIKT. H O R S E .
ences of climate. But this explanation quarter inch in depth or thickness. It is ouly trip-hammer lu use was worked by gained twenty-three (munds. Suspect
is
not the true one, as is shown by tlie in two parts, both smooth on the outer hand, the weight being drawn up with ing that there wns some mistake, the
forced him to let his wife return to the
figures
iu Mississippi, a State whose side, but elaborately engraved wltblu. ropes and pulley, aud allowed to drop physician caused the patient to be
circus arena with her horses. Faith
fully she labored for him aud herself, climate more nearly, perhaps, than any I These two surfaces are Impressed upon The American power-hammer strikes weighed on three different sets of
scales. These figures were fully veri
and her work was rewarded excellently other, with the exception of Texas, re [ a lump of wax attached In an Ingenious 100 and more blows iu a minute
sembles
that
of
Mexico;
there
were
way
to
any
document
to
which
her
The discovery that there Is a kind of fied, however. During the next week
with both fame and money. But the
life was mortal agony for the Russian. only thirty-one Mexicans In Mississippi Majesty as sovereign gives her royal struggle for existence and survival of she gained only six pounds. Sho Im
Night after night he stood where his returned by the last census, In Ala assent. The weight of the seal is one tlie fittest among rivers Is one of the proved In other ways also, and was
fierce eyes could watch the audience, bama thirty-four, and in Arkansas hundred and eighty-five ounces, and most interesting results of the modern soon afterwards discharged. The girl
and every glance that seemed to lack twenty-seven, while iu the North At Its value in metal about £30. Each seal study of physiography. A notable ex Is alive and well to-day, and hard at
respect, every word that seemed to lantic States there were «50. Another Is engraved during the reign of the ample of this contest Is exhibited by work In her old place.
Dr. Walker expresses the opinion that
Imply admiration, even the applause explanation of the lack of Mexican emi sovereign whose name it bears, aud the England’s two longest rivers, the
that was lavished on her, bit into him gration to this country is given in the collection presents a curious and accu Thames and the Severn. Between their the perceptible fnlllng off In mortality
unfamiliarity of its people with the rate epitome of English history. All valleys lie the Cotswold Hills, and ex from tuberculosis hi England of late
as acid into a wound.
language,
but that view of the case Is lord chancellors have taken the great plorntlon shows thut the Severn, by years Is due to the fact that the work
Soon Vienna was startled by the
est care of the seals In their charge, eating backward among these hills ing classes there are better paid and
not
well
supported.
news that a duel had been fought be
and
have contrived recesses and elab where softer strata underlie them, lias consequently better nourished than for
The
republic
of
Mexico
has
not
been
tween him and an officer of high rank,
orate
devices for their safe custody. diverted to itself some of the head merly. It is probable, however, that
Increasing
much
In
population
through
and that his opponent had been killed
One of them, in the reign of Charles waters which formerly flowed Into the they are also boused more comfortably
immigration
in
recent
years
and
the
at the first fire. It was proved that
II., actually slept with the seal under Thames. So considerable has this ac and amid better snnltary surroundings.
the dead officer had attempted to force number of American emigrants to Mex
his pillow, and by this loving precau tion been that the two rivers concerned Possibly more than one cause operates
ico
has
been
continuously
small.
There
bis attentions on the equestrian, and
tion saved it from thieves who one
the baron was not prosecuted. The were by the last enumeration 7,200 for night broke into his house and carried have been denominated "the waxing to produce the observed effect.
eign
residents
In
the
capital
city
of
Severn and the waning Thames."
tragic affair cooled neither the baron’s
aft the mace belonging to the House of
A J ew e le r's S to ry.
Mexico,
the
total
population
of
which
blood nor that of the admirers of the
Lords aud other valuable property.—
Diamonds can be broken, but they
was
345,000.—New
York
Sun.
baroness. A second duel in the south
T O IN T E R V IE W A P R IN C E S S .
Chambers’ Journal.
very seldom are. Iu the course of an
of Europe soon followed the first, aud
W o r l d '« S m a lle s t B a t t e r y .
experience
of nearly forty years I have
H o w H C le v e r N e w Y o r k W n m u n M i n i -
another dead officer was left on the
A D is h l o r a n E p c u r e .
Tills picture of “Hiuk and Dink," the
known of only two cases of diamonds
u g e d to C o n v e r s e w i t h K u l a l i a .
field to testify to the prowess, this time, youngest battery in the world. Is
A largs business is carried on in Shas-
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, who being broken. Due occurred many years
of the baron's sword. Again, In France, copied from a snapshot taken of Fran burg In the manufacture of pate de foie
ago, when I wns working in a shop in
a civilian, one of the richest men of the cis Walsh, a young Kansas City lad, who gras. In the process of manufacture conducts the woman’s department of Chattanooga. A lady customer dropped
the
New
York
Tribune,
is
credited
with
day, tried to send a note to tlie baron has been visiting Boston lately, and Fred the livers used are those of the common
cluster brooch from the counter to
the following lu the Saturday Evening
ess. The baron intercepted it, and the
goose, and by a special method o f stuff I’ost:
the tiled floor, a distance of about three
next morning it became known in the
ing they are often made to attain a
“One day when I was writing for the aud a half feet. It struck squarely on
town that the baron’s deadly record
weight of two pounds. As many as
now
defunct Recorder I was assigned the center stone, which was broken Into
had been Increased by another victim.
seven or eight hundredweight of them to interview the Princess Eulalia, the a number of small, Irregular fragments.
This third duel sufficed to frighten
are required daily during the season.
Spanish royal representative to the The diamond liad weighed about two
the most daring, and for a considerable
The livers must be absolutely fresh for World’s Fair at Chicago. 1 missed her carats. The other Instance took placo
if
V
time even this insanely Jealous man
use, and the sorting Is done with great lu New York, so I paid my own ex lu New Orleans, about six years ago.
found something like peace, for there
care. When they reach the factory they penses to Washington to Interview her A St. Louis traveling man had a soli
was no man iu any of the crowds that
are of a pinkish yellow color. It was
there, but I did uot succeed. She would taire weighing one and a half carats
watched the beautiful woman ride who
In 1788 that Jean Pierre Clause, the fa not see reporters. I Interviewed the set In a ring. He wns standing In the
did not keep himself In rein, well know
mous chef de cuisine of the Marshal de master of ceremonies, an American store, and while conversing about
ing that the Russian’s sharp eyes were
Contades, the Governor of the then who had charge of the royal party, and something made a sudden gesture, and
roving over each face in turn with
French province of Alsace, made the asked him to help me. He replied that struck the stone against a metal fix
discovery that cold goose liver served ’Her highness would return to New ture. It wns split luto small, Jagged
fierce watchfulness jx every glance.
In Madeira Jelly was not to be des York the next day, but you cannot splinters, a number of which we found
Rut finally, In Franc», a Danish naval
pised, and that, enclosed In a crust meet lier unless you are Introduced by on top of the showcase. The drummer
officer became infatuated with the
with truffe de I’erlgord, It was the dish Mayor Gilroy himself.’
graceful rider. Perhaps he was reck
himself was the most astonished man
of an epicure. So highly was Clause's
less; perhaps he did not know the rec
“I went hack to New York crest I ever saw. He had supposed diamonds
discovery prized that his master kept fallen. The next day I Induced the were indestructible, simply because
ord of her husband. At any rate, he
the recipe a profound secret, aud never editor to send me on the chartered boat they were hard.
took no pains to hide his admiration of
omitted a dish at the dinners he gave which took the royal party up to West
the Baroness Jenny. His friends hast
to high dignitaries.
Oobley’s Revenge.
ened then to acquaint him with the
H I N K A N D D IN K .
Point. The boat started and Eulalia
truth, but he only laughed at them. It
"John,
there's
a burglar trying to get
and
her
escort
took
up
a
position
on
the
N eeded P a tie n c e .
AA’iltzinger, a youngster from Dorches
In the house?”
was a pretty romance and it amused
main
deck.
The
Mayor
stood
on
one
ter. Both are friends of Charley Nich *‘I learn,” she said, reproachfully,
him.
"Is there?”
ols, of the Boston Base-ball Club, two that you were devoted to no fewer side aud navy and army officers on the
"Yes. Aren’t you going to do some
One day the officer stared at the of whose uniforms were remade to fit than five girls before you finally pro other. All about were soldiers with
baroness with open insolence. The the young players. “Hlnk” Is the pitch posed to me. How do I know that you crossed sabers. The procession of In thing about It?”
“No, Maria. I'm a humane man, but
next Instant a great form towered over er and "Dink" the catcher, but If didn’t make desperate love to all of vited guests started two by two to be
presented to the Princess, but when 1 If that fellow falls over Johnny’s tin
him, a voice thick with rnge addressed “Hink’s” curves fall to bewilder the op them ?”
saw that they did not get near enough wagon, and steps Into a toy drum, and
him and he fell, shot dead. As this posing batsman "Dink” takes his place
"I did,” he replied promptly.
to her to touch her hand I determined gets frightened by treading on a rubber
killing was not In a duel the baron was on the rubber, and “Hlnk" dons the big
“You did!” she exclaimed.
not
to take my place in the line, but to doll that says ‘papa,’ and barks his
arrested and tried. The end was that mitt, mask and protector.
"Certainly,” he returned. “You don’t
he was acquitted. There followed a
suppose for a minute I would be fool devise other means of being Introduced. shins the same as I did when I came
few years of comparatively serene life.
hardy enough to try for such a prize Finally a bright thought occurred to here In the dark to-night, ’twill be all
A T ra d e in Itself*.
me, aud, breaking through the ranks, his own fault. I don't feel called upon
Through It all ran the strain of a per
Citizen—See here, I'll give you a u you are without practicing a little I said to the soldiers:
to Interfere with my advice or to offer
fect love between these two. And then dime, but I believe you Rsked me for at first, do you?”—Chicago Post.
a
helping hand, for It won’t be a de
“
’Let
me
pass;
I’ve
a
message
for
the baron died.
money only yesterday. Why don’t you
When the hostess no longer apolo Mayor Gilroy.’
serving case. G’nlght.’’-C ollier’s Week-
That was two years and a half ago. learn some good business?
____ __________
gize« for the lack of pie, a wise guest
“I went through. I walked up to the ly.
In that time the baroness appeared
Able-bodied Beggar—I have learned know« her welcome Is worn out, and
Mayor
and
said:
‘Mr.
Mayor,
everybody
with few Interruptions and earned the one, sir; I’m a re-toucher.—Life.
Papa’s Idea o f It.
talks of going.
has met the Princess but myself. Will
admiration of all. Last January she
Little
Harry-Papa,
what Is the still,
you present me?’
appeared In Ntzza. For some time be
small voice?
Every one reaches a day when he
Some people are good for no other
"He recognized me and replied: ‘I am
fore that she had suffered from pain In tells something he has always kept a reason than that they may better
I apa It s the voice In which your
delighted to have the honor. Your mother makes suggestions to the cook.
the spine, but she Insisted on appear- secret
abuse those who are n o t
highness, this Is Miss Cynthia West- —Chicago News.
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